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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

What's A Lefty To Do?

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jul 27 2009, 4:52 PM ET Comment

Had to laugh at this one from adamvillani, deep in the football thread:

Aww man, football fans have TNC, basketball fans have Yglesias, but for political commentators we baseball fans got stuck with George Will.

For the record it looks like a fantasy league is out. I should have known it wouldn't work. In my head, I always see this blog as a conversation between me and like 20 other people. It's obviously a lot more than that, but it rarely occurs to me that there actually are a lot of people reading. Tomorrow we'll discuss what form we should take--with pick 'em and salary cap being the two obvious options.


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